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...recognized the Peking Communist government only four days after the proclamation of the Chinese People's Republic in 1949, Mao Tse-tung ignored the gesture. In subsequent years, the Chinese press regularly attacked Titoist "revisionism." In one famous outburst, the Peking People's Daily called Tito "a dwarf kneeling in the mud and trying with all his might to spit at a giant standing on a lofty mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Hua Moves On | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...Rebelle" depicts an abstract concept--rebellion. One black arm reaches high over the head of a figure not recognizably human. The other arm seems atrophied, dwarf-size. There is one red eye in the center of the face: a favorite Surrealist technical device symolizing both inner and outer vision. "La Fronde" harks back to the theories of Sigmund Freud, one of the great heroes of the founder of the Surrealist movement. A person with a tiny head and huge, bloated body curls around in an endless, crazy, frightened somersault--a Freudian might see it as a picture of someone...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: A Surrealist's Metamorphosis | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...powerful masters. Hence thinking along the lines of Black Consciousness makes the black man see himself as a being, entire in himself, and not as an extension of a broom or additional leverage to some machine. At the end of it all, he cannot tolerate attempts by anybody to dwarf the significance of his manhood. Once this happens, we know that the real man in the black person is beginning to shine through...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Biko: A Man for His People | 5/12/1978 | See Source »

...read a letter from the little man with the funny hair and began the atomic bomb. And one afternoon shortly before the Bay of Pigs in 1961, John Kennedy brushed aside the warnings that a moon shot was a multibillion-dollar, decade-long gamble that might fail. Such decisions dwarf the squabbles of politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Black Holes and Martian Valleys | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...telexing messages to Moscow, Tunney got the license, and presto, he and his friend have exclusive rights in the Western Hemisphere to promote the Olympics. On the drawing board: Olympic T shirts, buckles, decals and posters, as well as special lotteries, sweepstakes and shopping-center tours by a dwarf dressed to look like Misha. Will Tunney, 43, use the big bucks from the project to finance a political comeback? Flashing what has been called the second best set of teeth in politics, he declares: "I'm keeping that option open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1978 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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